Cascade vs Carebud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cascade
This app helps you regain focus by blocking chosen applications and offering mindful exercises when you feel the urge to open them. It allows you to set up automated focus routines and track your progress with friends.
- App blocking
- Mindful exercises
- Customizable routines
- Social focus tracking
- Weekly progress reports
- Lock screen widget
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Cascade blocks the apps you pick, for as long as you pick. The rest of the app is about the moment you want to open them anyway. WHEN THE URGE COMES The feeling you name decides what you get: a short breathing exercise, a small thing to do away from the screen, or a question to think about. Each takes a minute or two. None of them lead back to the feed. ROUTINES Set the days and hours once. Sessions start and end on their own, even when the app is closed. ALWAYS ON Always locked keeps the apps you choose closed until you remove them. Check-ins add a short pause before an impulsive open. FRIENDS Add friends with a code. In the Progress tab you see each other's focus time, longest session and streak. You can invite friends into a focus session, or into a shared routine so everyone focuses at the same hours with their own apps. Every finished session also counts as a vote for the person you are becoming, and your friends can see your votes too. THE WEEKLY LETTER At the end of every week Cascade writes you a short letter: which days you focused, why you stopped, what you finished. Past letters stay in an archive. ALSO INSIDE Short meditations for focus, calm and sleep. Rewire, a course on why feeds are so hard to put down. A lock screen widget and Live Activities for your sessions. PRIVACY The list of apps you block stays on your phone. Blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time framework, on your device. We never see your apps. What you type in Ask Cascade goes to our server to be answered. PRICE Free: unlimited Zen sessions, one meditation, one Rewire lesson. Pro unlocks everything else, as a subscription or a one time purchase. The yearly plan starts with a 7 day free trial. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Carebud
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Tiny steps, one happy pet. Carebud turns your routines into mini steps, and your pet cheers you on through every single one. Made for adults with ADHD who freeze because they don't know where to start. Check off one small step and your pet hops for joy. Finish a routine and it throws a little party with you. Missed a day? Your streak forgives it. DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU? • You know what to do, but starting feels impossible • Mornings slip away and evenings run late • Your head is full of loose tasks • Planners feel too strict, habit apps feel too empty • One missed day and the whole streak is gone HOW IT WORKS 1. Hatch your pet: cat, puppy, red panda, axolotl or mini dragon 2. Answer a few questions and your pet builds your plan: three routines for morning, day and evening, at your times. Add more from templates or build your own from tiny steps 3. Check off a step and your pet reacts right away 4. Keep your streak, save it the next day or pause it when life happens FEATURES • Routines in mini steps, with gentle reminders from your pet • Check off steps right from your Home Screen widget • Focus timer for steps that take time, with rain, soft noise or waves, plus a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • AI brain dump: type or say what's on your mind. Carebud sorts it into tasks and routines, and you decide what stays • Plan: a calendar with tasks for each day, each with its own reminder • A streak that forgives a missed day, and a pause for vacations or sick days • Evening wrap-up: move open tasks to tomorrow or let them go, and answer "How was your day?" with one tap • Your pet's diary: all your days and moods in one calendar • Hard day: a one-minute breathing exercise with your pet and helplines for your country • Calm mode, dyslexia-friendly font, light and dark mode YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no login • Your routines stay on your phone • No ads, no data selling • Your brain dump text goes through our own server to an AI service that sorts it. We don't store it, and it is never used for training. SUBSCRIPTION Carebud requires a subscription (weekly or every 6 months). Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Prices may vary by country and are clearly shown in the app. Carebud is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat ADHD. Terms of Use: https://grotdcommerce.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://grotdcommerce.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
Cascade and Carebud are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Cascade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Carebud sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Cascade | Carebud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 322 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | IDIL CIVEZ | GROTD Commerce LLC |
In-app purchases
Cascade
- Monthly Pro14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Pro14 Days trial$24.991 Year
Carebud
- Carebud Pro: 1 Week$4.997 Days
- Carebud Pro: 6 Months$34.996 Months









